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Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen participated in a roundtable with three of her predecessors: Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker. Here is MarketWatch’s Greg Robb live-blog of the proceedings. 7:14 pm With that we’ll end out live blog. Thanks for following along. Stay tuned for MarketWatch’s coverage of the Fed as the central bank […]

Maybe Janet Yellen was tempted to sing Amy Winehouse’s “Tears Dry On Their Own” when reports were fast and furious that President Barack Obama wanted to select Larry Summers over her for Federal Reserve chairman.

That stretch of a connection comes as the latest market commentary from CovergEx examines Google trends in the real world, among them pitting Yellen against Winehouse. Per their analysis, Janet Yellen managed to beat Amy Winehouse in terms of search volume on October 7-9 — and then promptly has fallen back. Yellen was nominated to lead the Fed by Obama on Oct. 9.